Remembering the lives lost

26 December 2011 01:43 pm Views - 2964

People look at photographs of the 2004 tsunami, at the Ulee Lheue mass grave near Banda Aceh, Aceh province December 26, 2011. Survivors gathered in neighbourhood mosques and homes to remember those killed by the tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake off the island of Sumatra seven years ago.  REUTERS


A boy plants paper flowers with messages written by the Indonesian and Japanese society during a ceremony to commemorate the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Lhoknga, Aceh province December 26, 2011. REUTERS


Children pray for family members who died in the 2004 tsunami, at their boarding school in Banda Aceh, Aceh province December 26, 2011. REUTERS